Vivek Nayan is the Chief Technology Officer at Indus Action, an India-based nonprofit that builds digital public goods to help vulnerable families traverse the journey from poverty to dignity by enabling frictionless access to a carefully curated portfolio of legislated rights.

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With two decades of experience in engineering and governance, he is passionate about designing resilient public infrastructure by deploying grassroots technology to unlock agency, inclusion, and systemic change. He envisions dignity-driven design and federated stewardship as pathways to scale citizen impact.

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Vivek Nayan is a 2025 Perplexity Fellow. He holds degrees from Coventry University and Institute of Management Technology. He is a professional member of IEEE and has co-authored multiple papers across subfields of machine learning.

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